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A-league attendances 24/25

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Sure but you would have to walk through town with headphones and dark glasses to NOT know when its footy season....
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Sure, I know when the footy is on, but I couldn't tell you which team is doing well, or who's playing who on the weekend and I'd probably even struggle to name a current player. I will admit, I'm probably a bit of a fringe case. Nobody at work follows the AFL. I have some friends/family that follow it a little bit, but they don't really talk about it (not around me anyway). I haven't been to a game in over 30 years and haven't watched a GF on the TV for at least a decade. It's just not part of my life. Always hated it growing up and have probably trained myself to tune out anything and everything AFL related. I have two toddlers at home. I barely have enough time and energy for things I am interested, let alone the things that I'm not.
 
LFC said:
Sutho big cameos your Cove and the MV ultras whatever you call them.
Big Blues always had mischief walking to and departing the SFS.
The 3 combined added to the declines.
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I can honestly say i never seen any violence with the southern fairy boys. SFC have not really declined, we have a rusted on average of about 12-13000 over the the twenty seasons , not Covid affected.
 
someguyjc said:
Sure, I know when the footy is on, but I couldn't tell you which team is doing well, or who's playing who on the weekend and I'd probably even struggle to name a current player. I will admit, I'm probably a bit of a fringe case. Nobody at work follows the AFL. I have some friends/family that follow it a little bit, but they don't really talk about it (not around me anyway). I haven't been to a game in over 30 years and haven't watched a GF on the TV for at least a decade. It's just not part of my life. Always hated it growing up and have probably trained myself to tune out anything and everything AFL related. I have two toddlers at home. I barely have enough time and energy for things I am interested, let alone the things that I'm not.
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Oh, Im pretty much the same ... Couldnt even tell you who plays for which team... just find it harder to tune out I guess :)
 
About 5000 extra people turned up because they had free tickets that were handed out to registered players in WA in 2024……..
 
Kitwally said:
About 5000 extra people turned up because they had free tickets that were handed out to registered players in WA in 2024……..
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Who cares how they got the tickets, they had a great day out and it was really one for the kids and that is all that matters. If the kids had fun who to say there parents wont buy a ticket for the next match.
 
I think it’s a good initiative so well done Perth. The recent women’s Ashes test was free for U-16s and $4 tickets I heard. Could A-Liga could also try something similar with discount tickets.
 
One other reason I think it's hard for casuals to follow the a league is the outgoing transfers. See me and you appreciate it but not people who don't under the global sport they would be Thinking why support a team if a player gets sold to Denmark for example.

Kids aren't going to get Jed drew shirts when he gets sold after a season or two
 
melbcityguy said:
One other reason I think it's hard for casuals to follow the a league is the outgoing transfers. See me and you appreciate it but not people who don't under the global sport they would be Thinking why support a team if a player gets sold to Denmark for example.

Kids aren't going to get Jed drew shirts when he gets sold after a season or two
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Players in all sports get bought, sold or traded, all the time. Football is no different to any other sport. It's a job to them.
 
melbcityguy said:
One other reason I think it's hard for casuals to follow the a league is the outgoing transfers. See me and you appreciate it but not people who don't under the global sport they would be Thinking why support a team if a player gets sold to Denmark for example.

Kids aren't going to get Jed drew shirts when he gets sold after a season or two
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I actually agree a bit with this thought.

I look at the Roar and who do we have that is a dyed in the wool long serving soldier for the club now? Corey Brown (left us for MV and came back with all the uproar and did not play) and Jack Hingert (who is a club stalwart but not a character to draw fans for him alone).

Anyone (casual types) who is not already behind the club is going to be wondering season after season who the hell is taking the field for us. I am awful at putting names and faces together and it takes me many weeks to know who I am watching - there are no characters at my club who would draw a casual observer and my wife has said from time to time 'I don't know any of our players any more'.

The football has to be good enough to carry the casual in the absence of flashy attention holders - with players swapping between rivals so much under our salary capped league that a good player moves on rather than staying and building a personal following with one club more often than not.

In the absence of good football, there is nothing else to draw casuals into becoming regulars then fans.

We were watching Waddingham as a newly emerging talent - now he is gone. We can watch Brazete, Herrington, Klein, Burke-Gilroy but I am sure we will be losing some of them sometime in the next season or so.

A football club needs an identity and to me the simplest way for that (without having the community support to begin with due to the franchise system) is to have a stable core to your team that play decent football and casuals can take note of them as individuals or as a group and come back for them.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
Players in all sports get bought, sold or traded, all the time. Football is no different to any other sport. It's a job to them.
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It's about the fans.

Also, the AFL being a local sport means that trades are actually quite minor. The AFL has also created really boring TV & media content with the draft coverage. Not sure about the NRL. With basketball, the entire aim of the game is to send players to the USA and make a big hooha when an American shows up.
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
It's about the fans.

Also, the AFL being a local sport means that trades are actually quite minor. The AFL has also created really boring TV & media content with the draft coverage. Not sure about the NRL. With basketball, the entire aim of the game is to send players to the USA and make a big hooha when an American shows up.
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I was saying sports world wide, not the Australian ones.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
I was saying sports world wide, not the Australian ones.
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Can you give a example? I don't really follow other sports I'm just saying it's a problem for the a league like when you have kisnorbo (melb city legend) and Bruno playing for victory if they don't give a fook why should the fans ridiculous
 
RIMB said:
I actually agree a bit with this thought.

I look at the Roar and who do we have that is a dyed in the wool long serving soldier for the club now? Corey Brown (left us for MV and came back with all the uproar and did not play) and Jack Hingert (who is a club stalwart but not a character to draw fans for him alone).

Anyone (casual types) who is not already behind the club is going to be wondering season after season who the hell is taking the field for us. I am awful at putting names and faces together and it takes me many weeks to know who I am watching - there are no characters at my club who would draw a casual observer and my wife has said from time to time 'I don't know any of our players any more'.

The football has to be good enough to carry the casual in the absence of flashy attention holders - with players swapping between rivals so much under our salary capped league that a good player moves on rather than staying and building a personal following with one club more often than not.

In the absence of good football, there is nothing else to draw casuals into becoming regulars then fans.

We were watching Waddingham as a newly emerging talent - now he is gone. We can watch Brazete, Herrington, Klein, Burke-Gilroy but I am sure we will be losing some of them sometime in the next season or so.

A football club needs an identity and to me the simplest way for that (without having the community support to begin with due to the franchise system) is to have a stable core to your team that play decent football and casuals can take note of them as individuals or as a group and come back for them.
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The name on the front of the shirt means a thousand times more than any name on the back of it.....
 
melbcityguy said:
Can you give a example? I don't really follow other sports I'm just saying it's a problem for the a league like when you have kisnorbo (melb city legend) and Bruno playing for victory if they don't give a fook why should the fans ridiculous
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When Figo left Barcelona for Real Madrid I am willing to bet that that no more than 3 people world wide (and they certainly weren't Spanish residents) followed him across.... Players are temporary, club is eternal.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
I can honestly say i never seen any violence with the southern fairy boys. SFC have not really declined, we have a rusted on average of about 12-13000 over the the twenty seasons , not Covid affected.
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it was only the other week they had fights outside the stadium, footage can be found online. (MV v SydFC)
 
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